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application development.

This may prove true, but at the moment Silverlight 1.0 is in beta, and v1.1 -- which brings .NET and the brand new Dynamic Language Runtime to the Web -- is in alpha. Thus one aim of MIX07 was to educate developers on how Silverlight works, what it contains and what it does not, and will not, do.

Jamie Cool and Nick Kramer, two members of the .NET Framework group at Microsoft, provided this overview in a two-part MIX07 session called "Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET."

SearchVB.com has boiled this session down into a series of FAQs about Silverlight.

What exactly is a rich Internet application anyway?Cool pointed to Microsoft Outlook Web Access as a good example. Such applications are platform-agnostic, offer a secure sandbox, are built using a highly productive IDE and offer a highly capable UI mode, he said.

Complex custom controls like TreeView and Accordion. Kramer said Microsoft is looking to its partners and to individual developers to create these controls and share them with the community.

Out-of-browser or offline capabilities. This, after all, is the purview of client-based applications and Windows Presentation Foundation, he said.

The entire .NET CLR. This is largely because elements of the CLR that are not needed for the browser, such as COM interop, are not part of the Silverlight CLR, Cool said. It has also helped keep the .NET Framework in Silverlight to a little more than 4 MB, as opposed to the 50 MB version for the Windows desktop, he added.

For additional information, the two "Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET." sessions can be viewed in their entirety on the MIX07 Sessions page -- just type in "Jamie Cool" as a search term.

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